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L.A. TACO’s Staff Investigative Reporter Wins Second Place Anthem Award In Health Innovation Category

<p>Scouring the brick jungles of Los Angeles with my arsenal of cameras. In my adventures I am photographing anything that piques my interest.</p>


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L.A. Taco’s Year in Review: Our Best Photos of 2020

<p>Lexis-Olivier Ray is an award-winning staff investigative reporter for L.A. TACO known for holding powerful people in Los Angeles accountable and his reporting on Los Angeles culture. As well as an artist and filmmaker. In 2022, the Society of Professional Journalists&#8217; Los Angeles chapter named Ray one of their &#8220;distinguished journalists.&#8221; This year, Ray won a second place Anthem Award in their Health Innovation category for a texting service geared towards the unhoused community and service providers that he launched in 2021 with L.A. TACO and Subtext. Ray was a 2020 USC Center For Health Journalism (CHJ) Data Fellow. As well as a 2022 CHJ Impact Fellow. As a freelancer, Ray has contributed to the L.A. Times, Men&#8217;s Health Magazine, KCET and SFGATE.</p>


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(UPDATE) Video Emerges Showing Long Beach Police Beating a Pinned Man With a Baton, Evoking Painful Memories of Rodney King

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Less Than Two Months After Councilmember Cedillo Increased LAPD Foot Patrol to Curb Crime, Three People Have Been Fatally Shot in Highland Park

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The Golden Dragon Parade Remains a Constant in Gentrifying Chinatown…For Now

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Update: LAPD Thought He Was a Black Man With a Gun, Turns out He Was a Latino Man Holding a Bicycle Part

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Update: L.A.’s Oldest Skate Shop No Longer Shuttering After All…For Now.

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Are Vigilante Groups on Facebook to Blame for the Spike in Violence Against L.A.’s Homeless?

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(Update) Hundreds of Illegal Sidewalk Planters Are Still Displacing the Homeless in L.A., Six Months After the City Council Said They Would Investigate

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